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ATE strategically designed TAICP to support candidates commencing in the senior year of college.

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“I have tried to make suggestions to enhancing the lessons with technology and music. I told her what I plan on doing for the lessons I plan to teach. She comments that they are good ideas and usually points to the children’s unruliness as being the reason she does not do those types of activities.”

“I have to be so careful with what I say on campus, everybody knows everything; nothing is secret. Even with my (campus) mentor, I need to be really careful in what I say and how so that she doesn’t think I don’t know what I’m doing. Si no pudiera hablar contigo de lo que pasa aquí, no podría hablar con nadie. (If I could not speak with you [induction mentor] about what happens here, I could not talk with anyone.)”

“They(mentors) were there to offer strategies. S(mentor) would come ask me…are you ready for next week? Lesson planning was a big struggle for me, just finding the time and that’s where S would come in and say, don’t worry, here’s an idea, relax, take a deep breath. I would say lesson planning, classroom management, and just trying to stay above water, trying to breathe.”

CREATE (2011). PACE 2010: Performance Analysis System for Colleges of Education (PACE) for the University of Texas at San Antonio (2009-2010). Center for Research, Evaluation, and Assessment of Teacher Education, Houston, Texas.